ONCE A CHEATER, ALWAYS A CHEATER? Here's the science #shorts

I wrote my MSc dissertation at Oxford on infidelity, and I’ve heard the phrase “once a cheater, always a cheater” quite a bit. In my opinion, the only way to get good data on whether or not this phrase is true would be to do a longitudinal study; lucky for us, in 2017, researchers led by Kayla Knopp did just that. They followed 484 people who had had multiple relationships across several surveys and found that those who cheated in their first studied relationships had a 45% chance of cheating in their second studied relationship. For reference, those who didn’t cheat in their first relationship only had an 18% chance of cheating in their second one. So, not exactly once a cheater always a cheater, but certainly once a cheater much more likely to cheat again. If your partner cheated in their last relationship, knowing nothing else, it’s a coin flip. #shorts #cheating#cheatingboyfriend#cheatinggirlfriend#psychology#relationship#dating#love#romance#datingtips#datingadvice#facts#science#fact

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Well yes. Cheating is an action that shows callous indifference to an individual whom the party shares an extremely close interpersonal relationship with. An escalated behavior indicates there was an existing behavioral baseline of indifference. I wouldn't get involved with someone who had a behavioral baseline like that